The start of summer

I haven't been doing a very good job of posting lately. Things are busy as usual. All of the weekends in May were booked with fun family and friend time. Mother's day weekend my parents came down on Friday and stayed through Saturday afternoon. Then, on Sunday we took Cade to the zoo. The next weekend was opening fishing so Cade and I tagged along with Sean and he dropped us off at the cabin before he headed up to Lake Vermilion to have his annual guys weekend with a bunch of his Chisholm friends. Cade and I had a great time with Grandma, Grandpa, Auntie Marcy, JR, Great-aunt Susan and Great-uncle Jerry. Cade got to go in his pool for the first time of the year and got to have a boat ride. The next weekend, Grandpa Phil came into town on Friday so we got to have dinner and Cade spent some quality time with him on Saturday morning before he had to leave to babysit Phillip. Then in the afternoon, we got to meet Kristie, Tom and Brooke at the Como Zoo. We missed seeing Ashley because she was with her grandma but it was nice just to have the 2 year olds to watch. Kristie and I got a chance to catch up and have some family fun. The on Sunday afternoon, my parents were back in town for a grad party and we had dinner with them and Marcy and JR. Memorial day weekend we headed up to the cabin. Sean took Friday off so we could stop in Proctor and meet our newest little friend Hannah Grace who was born on May 2nd to Heather and Chris. Sean wasn't feeling well so he took a nap and Cade and I got to meet Hannah. She is a little sweetheart. She has red hair just like her momma but looks alot like her daddy. So cute :) Cade even had to give her a kiss and touch her hair. We were out at the cabin by dinner on Friday night. All of us (12 adults, 3 kids and 7 dogs) were there by Saturday at lunch time. So, it was a busy, crazy and fun weekend. The weekend project was painting the new bedrooms in the basement addition. It will be so great once everything is done. Four more bedrooms to fill up with all of us. Unfortunately, Sean was sick all weekend and ended up sleeping most of the time but by Monday afternoon he felt a little better and even got in some painting. Cade got alot of quality time with Grandma while I helped out with the painting and getting meals together for all of us.

Feeding the goats at the MN Zoo

"What's this big wheel for?"
Walking up the hill.
Luckily, he didn't mind his life jacket.
First pool time of 2010
Playing with his own minnows.
I gave him 2 in his own bucket so he wouldn't kill all of the rest.
Boat ride!
We took the fishing boat out for a spin and Cade wanted to sit on grandpa Reg's lap.
Notice he has pjs on :)

Sophie was enjoying the ride too.
Just a cute picture with "monk."